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Deputies: 4th child dies after domestic disturbance linked to fire at home

Abortion rights activists marched from the Georgia Capitol to Underground Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. The protest follows the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Darlene Nicole Brister, 40, was charged with two counts of malice murder and is being held without bond in a Paulding County jail. Her charges stem from a house fire Friday night in which three children died and another was hospitalized with burn wounds, Paulding fire officials confirmed.

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Deputies: 4th child dies after domestic disturbance linked to fire at home

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June 20, 2022 Dekalb County: Two predawn crashes made a mess of things Monday, June 20, 2022 on I-285 in DeKalb County, shutting down both the inner and outer loops for hours during the morning commute. Two eastbound lanes of I-285 at Flat Shoals Parkway remained closed at 9:30 a.m., according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center. All lanes were closed around 4:45 a.m., when the big rig was involved in a multivehicle wreck and burst into flames. According to DeKalb police, the tractor-trailer’s brakes went out and it hit two unoccupied, abandoned vehicles after pulling into an emergency lane. One of the empty vehicles also caught fire, but no one was injured, a police spokesperson said. The flames have since been extinguished, but a crash investigation is ongoing. On the inner loop, traffic was backed up for miles behind another wreck at Glenwood Road. A pedestrian was hit and killed, and the driver involved stayed at the scene, police said. All southbound lanes were closed at 5:30 a.m. and started reopening two hours later. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Stoney Birt, right, with son Stone Birt on the construction site for a new subdivision in Sugar Hill, contends that his father, Billy Sunday Birt, was a good father despite also being a serial murderer. Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Killer Billy Sunday Birt was a father who left behind a family divided

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday that struck down Roe v. Wade will have drastic implications for what is — and isn’t — legal in Georgia regarding abortion.

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Abortion rights activists marched from the Georgia Capitol to Underground Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. The protest follows the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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June 24, 2022 Atlanta - People march to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in downtown Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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In abortion ruling’s wake, Georgians remain divided, determined

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June 25, 2022 Atlanta - Attendees walk in a conference room during National Right to Life’s 51st convention at the Atlanta Airport Marriott Hotel in Atlanta on Saturday, June 25, 2022.(Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Georgia activists in abortion debate turn focus to November elections

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Abortion rights demonstrators protest in downtown Atlanta in response to The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Natrice Miller / natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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In March, school and school security leaders from around Georgia met with Gov. Brian Kemp at the Governor's Mansion in Buckhead to share their safety concerns. Kemp spoke again about the issue Thursday at the conclusion of a school safety conference in Columbus led by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. (AJC file photo)

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Georgia putting more money into school safety

Kwajelyn Jackson, third from left, the director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center, speaks during a 2019 press conference about the lawsuit challenging Georgia's restrictive anti-abortion law. (Alyssa Pointer/alyssa.pointer@ajc.com)

Eyes on appeals court as Georgians wait to see local impact of abortion ruling

Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Georgia Republicans in Congress cheer, Democrats lament abortion ruling

FILE - Investigators search for evidences outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022, after an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. The district’s superintendent said Wednesday, June 22, that Chief Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district’s police chief, has been put on leave following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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House passes gun safety package, Biden expected to sign quickly

Demonstrators who support and oppose abortion rights sit in the lobby at the Capitol in March as members of the Senate debate House Bill 481, now the state’s new anti-abortion “heartbeat” law. The polarizing issue has not triggered the kind of response from Georgia’s corporate powers that they have shown when other controversial legislation was considered. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

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